Numbers 16:39 meaning and explanation

So Eleazar the priest took the bronze censers brought by those who had been burned up, and he had them hammered out to overlay the altar,

Numbers 16:39, Berean Standard Bible

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After fire consumed the 250 men who had challenged Moses and Aaron by offering incense, the LORD told Moses to have Eleazar, Aaron's son, collect the bronze censers from the flames. Though the men died, the censers had been presented before the LORD and were therefore holy, so they could not be treated as common scrap.

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